Been wondering about the opposite case for this one lately but think the same
applies. My pondering relates to the lack of an "ancestor" terminology in
Maya, listRelatives is a command to query childs and parents and although
listRelatives has an allParents keyword I can't find any notion of ancestry
beyond the nearest family.
Threw this together in order to get the full "family" tree but am aware of
two cases it doesn't fully list all relatives,you could potentially switch out
the parent keyword for children and it should traverse downwards instead.
def get_ancestors( node , checked=None ):
"""Returns all connected ancestors of a given node"""
if not checked:
checked = []
ancestors = []
checked.append( node )
parents = maya.cmds.listRelatives( node , ap=True)
if parents:
for parent in parents:
if parent not in checked:
checked.append( parent )
ancestors.append( parent )
ancestors += get_ancestors( parent , checked=checked )
return ancestors
print get_ancestors( node )
Just a simple recursive function, something that keeps calling itself until
the job is done, but I iterate this example I'm copy pasting off my notes app
is not doing the full job so you will need to expand on it a little.
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